“Black Foot” submitted applications for passports to travel to Algeria

A delegation from the “Black Foot” of France is expected on a visit to Algeria next November during which the delegation members will make a tour of inspection of a number of Christian and Jewish cemeteries in various parts of Algeria.

The expected delegation will include about 15 people from the members of the association for the protection of French graves, a visit that will coincide with the Christian Catholics’ “Toussaint” holiday.

The President of the French Protection Graves’ Association in Algeria, lawyer Jack Kavana, told “Echorouk” that the delegation will visit Algeria for 3 days.

The members of the delegation will notably visit the graveyard of “Saint Eugène” in downtown Bologhine district as well as “El Alia” cemetery on the eastern outskirts of the capital Algiers accompanied by a representative of the French embassy in Algiers, in order to see for themselves the state of the French graves there.

Our interlocutor also pointed to the acute deterioration of the French graves outside the Algerian capital due to lapses and neglect and other factors linked to the wear of time.

He also revealed that about 30 percent of the French cemeteries in Algeria are affected by these factors of neglect, and wear of time, pointing out that the French embassy in Algiers is facing this problem of the graves’ deterioration of these graves which have been left neglected, especially  during the dire decade of the nineties which beset Algeria .

He further indicated that the French authorities are considering the earmarking of a 200 million Euro- worth budget for the renovation of these neglected French graveyards in several parts of Algeria.